An incorrect implementation of "XEP-0280: Message Carbons" in multiple XMPP clients allows a remote attacker to impersonate any user, including contacts, in the vulnerable application's display. This allows for various kinds of social engineering attacks. This CVE is for SleekXMPP up to 1.3.1 and Slixmpp all versions up to 1.2.3, as bundled in poezio (0.8 - 0.10) and other products.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - An incorrect implementation of XEP-0280: Message Carbons in multiple XMPP clients allows a remote     attacker to impersonate any user, including contacts, in the vulnerable application's display. This allows     for various kinds of social engineering attacks. This CVE is for SleekXMPP up to 1.3.1 and Slixmpp all     versions up to 1.2.3, as bundled in poezio (0.8 - 0.10) and other products. (CVE-2017-5591)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

  - An incorrect implementation of "XEP-0280: Message Carbons" in multiple XMPP clients allows a remote
    attacker to impersonate any user, including contacts, in the vulnerable application's display. This allows
    for various kinds of social engineering attacks. This CVE is for SleekXMPP up to 1.3.1 and Slixmpp all
    versions up to 1.2.3, as bundled in poezio (0.8 - 0.10) and other products. (CVE-2017-5591)

Update to latest upstream release 1.3.2 to fix CVE-2017-5591 (rhbz#1421077)

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ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
254179	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2017-5591	Nessus	Misc.	medium
432541	SCA: security update for SleekXMPP, slixmpp (GHSA-c35g-jr5f-h83p)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	medium
432541	SCA: security update for SleekXMPP, slixmpp (GHSA-c35g-jr5f-h83p)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	medium
432477	SCA: security update for SleekXMPP, slixmpp (GHSA-c35g-jr5f-h83p)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	medium
432477	SCA: security update for SleekXMPP, slixmpp (GHSA-c35g-jr5f-h83p)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	medium
101650	Fedora 26 : python-sleekxmpp (2017-68bd2a916e)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
99321	Fedora 25 : python-sleekxmpp (2017-99ad80f109)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
99320	Fedora 24 : python-sleekxmpp (2017-97e65f13bb)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium

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